‘Writing by hand and typewriter not only brings out the best in me – it brings out stuff I never would have dreamt was there…. It is this – not improvement, but transfiguration of the contents of my head that I am addicted to. It is astonishing when it happens – magical – and it simply doesn’t happen on a computer.’
David Foster Wallace in een brief van 14 november 1993 aan Sven Birkerts.
Uit: D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, A Life of David Foster Wallace, Chapter 5: ‘Please Don’t Give Up on Me’ (Granta, London, 2012; p.317, noot 29).
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